D♯maj7

D♯1F𝄪3A♯5C𝄪7

Major triad with a major seventh: a half step below the root, an octave up.

Written the other way round it is E♭maj7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

8765

hard

Fig. 3

8aaa

hard

Fig. 4

x335

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 5

87aa

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

87ax

easy · no 5

What is true of it

D♯maj7 is D♯, F𝄪, A♯ and C𝄪 — 1, 3, 5 and 7 counted from D♯.

F𝄪 and C𝄪 are double sharps, and they have to be: every letter from D♯ upwards is used once, so the 3 cannot be written any other way.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 8765: 4 fingers, held at the 5th fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

1 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are D♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

D♯maj7/F𝄪

0365

second inversion

D♯maj7/A♯

3335

third inversion

D♯maj7/C𝄪

7766

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

D♯ in other shapes

D♯7dominant seventh D♯m7minor seventh D♯m(maj7)minor major seventh D♯major D♯mminor D♯dimdiminished

Cmaj7 C♯maj7 D♭maj7 Dmaj7 Emaj7 Fmaj7 F♯maj7 G♭maj7 all 374